REPLICATION README

Title: Transparency for Authoritarian Stability: Open Government Information and Contention with Institutions in China
Author: Handi Li
Journal: World Politics
Version: 4 June, 2025

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1. OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains codes and data that allow users to replicate all empirical results presented in the paper, including the appendix.

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2. FILE CONTENT
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- README.txt – this file

- /code/
 - Replication_Online_Survey.R - script to run analyses for data from Internet survey sample
 - Replication_Field_Survey.R - script to run analyses for data from field survey sample
 - Replication_Obs_Study.R - script to run analysis for the observational study
 - balance_test.R - script for the function of balance test used in the scripts

- /data/
 - complete_survey_data.csv - data of the online survey
 - data_survey_all.csv - data of the field survey
 - data_obs.csv - data for the observational study, including protest data calculated from the CASM (Zhang and Pan, 2019) dataset, socio-economic data from China's statistical yearbook, discipline data edited from replication data for Jiang, Shao and Zhang (2022) and institutional case data from China's Ministry of Justice 

Please find full data references in the manuscript.

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3. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt)
Default encoding: UTF-8

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4. CONTACT
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For questions or comments, please contact:

Handi Li
University College London
handi.li@ucl.ac.uk